While it’s already a federal crime to actively participate in an animal fight, it’s the spectators who drive the enterprise and make it profitable. This bill would make it a federal offense to attend an organized animal fight and impose additional penalties for bringing a child to a fight.

The Senate passed this bill in the previous Congress, but even with over half the House in support, Congress was unable to pass a final bill. Reintroducing this bill in the early days of the new Congress gives us an opportunity to build on the momentum from the last Congress and help finally close the federal loophole for animal fighting spectators.

Ask your own House representative to support this important humane legislation! Visit the ASPCA Advocacy Center right now to quickly email your U.S. rep in Washington and urge him or her to cosponsor the Animal Fighting Spectator Prohibition Act.

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this is not a sport. it is animal cruelty. those who do this to animals need to be severely punished ,pay to have the animals taken care of and those who think this is a sport should be arrested for watching and if they brig children child abuse charges also. these people do need to be educated. if you are capapble of doing this to animals, the next step for some of them is to hurt a person.

People who abuse any animals need to be punished and punished so badly that they will think twice beofre they even think of abusing another animas, we need more peole to fing for these innocent creatures of God.

I believe there should be strict penalties for first timers who commit animal abuse or neglect, including jail time, seriously it just may make others stop and think and change their minds, unless they don't mind one bit of being incarcerated